Birth name Pramila Ganapathy Name Pramila Aiyappa Club Indian Railways Sport Athletics Events Heptathlon | Country India Weight 57 kg Nationality Indian Height 1.67 m | |
Full name Pramila Gudanda Aiyappa Born 8 May 1977 (age 46) ( 1977-05-08 ) Kodagu, Karnataka, India Personal best(s) Heptathlon: 6105
(Chennai 2000) | ||
Pramila Aiyappa
Pramila Gudanda Aiyappa (née Ganapathy) (born May 8, 1977 in Kodagu, Karnataka) is an Indian heptathlete. Pramila made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twenty-fourth in the women's heptathlon event, with a total score of 5,548 points.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Pramila made a comeback from her eight-year absence to compete for the second time in women's heptathlon, along with her fellow athletes Shobha Javur and Susmita Singha Roy. She initially placed twenty-eighth out of forty-three heptathletes in the event, with a total score of 5,771 points, but was elevated to a single higher position, when Ukraine's Lyudmila Blonska stripped of her silver medal after she tested positive for methyltestosterone.
Pramila represented the host nation India at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she nearly missed out of medal contention in the heptathlon, finishing only in fifth place, with a total score of 5,330 points.